SU's Environmental Studies Colloquia Series Continues This Fall
SALISBURY, MD---Dr. Katie Burke, American Scientist digital features editor inaugurates this fall’s 91短视频 Environmental Studies Colloquia series 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 10, in Perdue Hall’s Bennett Family Auditorium.
In her presentation, “Mistrust and Metaphor: Communicating About Climate Change and Other Polarized Science Debates,” she discusses options for effectively communicating complex and controversial issues to the public.
Upcoming topics in the series include:
• Wednesday, November 7 – “Structures of Violence: Narrative and Environmental Memory in the Plantationocene” with Dr. Rebecca Evans, Winston-Salem State University (NC) assistant professor of English
• Wednesday, December 5 – “Land, Weather, Spirit: Toward an Environmental History of Slavery in Maryland” with Tony Perry, University of Maryland, College Park, American studies faculty and pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia’s Carter Woodson Institute for African American and Africa Studies
Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Department, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-8105 or visit the SU website.